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Telegram received by telephone regarding a badly smashed Cornish vehicle.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 98\5\  scan0060
Date  8th August 1939
  
R.R. 144A-81a08 13.1.39 WHK
ROLLS-ROYCE LTD.
Handwritten top right: H S 3, C.P.D., 4009
TELEGRAM RECEIVED BY TELEPHONE.
Time Received: 4.30pm
Date: 8.8.39
To: Roycar
By: JB
from: Issoudun Indre 15.00 15wds
Message: Robotham cornish badly smashed this morning please PHONE 21 after seven thirty tonight
FROM: Waller
Stamp: M.D. AUG 8 1939 RECEIVED
THIS SHEET MUST BE FILED.
  
  
From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).


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